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Innoweave is proud to be partnering with United Way of Burlington and Greater Hamilton Area to offer a Social Enterprise workshop to this community.

 

Workshop for Non-Profit Organizations

In this free workshop, organizations will learn more about what a social enterprise is, and think through the first few steps of how to start their own social enterprise. If you are thinking about starting up a social enterprise, click here to take our Social Enterprise Self-Assessment to see if the timing and context is right for you. Once you have completed your self assessment, visit www.innoweave.myreviewroom.comto fill out a workshop application form. (Note that the self-assessment is required as part of the application process). Make sure to select "Workshop: Social Enterprise" from the drop down list to proceed to the application for this particular workshop.

Innoweave workshops are intended for leadership teams of organizations - organizations should send 2-4 people to this workshop in order to make the best use of group activity time.

Event details: Tuesday, April 16th - 9am-3pm @ Hamilton Spectator Auditorium, 44 Frid St, Hamilton. Applications close on March 15th. Spaces are limited.

 

Facilitator Training

In conjunction with this workshop, Innoweave will also be running a facilitator training session for those interested in facilitating future Innoweave Social Enterprise workshops in their communities or within their networks. Those with some expertise in social enterpise are invited to take part in this facilitator training and make use of our open-access workshop curriculum. The facilitator training involves:

  • A 3-hour orientation/training on Monday, April 15th from 2pm to 5pm @ UWGBH, 177 Rebecca St, Hamilton
  • Observation of an Innoweave Social Enterprise Workshop on Tuesday, April 16th from 9am to 3pm @ Hamilton Spectator Auditorium, 44 Frid St, Hamilton
  • A post-workshop de-brief session on Tuesday, April 16th from 3:30pm to 5pm@ Hamilton Spectator Auditorium, 44 Frid St, Hamilton

To apply for this facilitator training, visit www.innoweave.myreviewroom.comand select "Facilitator Training: Social Enterprise" from the drop down list. Applications are due March 15th. Spaces are limited.

If you have any questions about the registration process, please contact info@innoweave.ca.

Startup Grind Toronto Hosts Kevin Doyle Jones with special guest Eli Malinsky

Join us March 13, 2013 for our Fireside Chat with Kevin Doyle Jones (Founder GoodCapital, Social Capital Markets Conference, The HUB Bay Area). With special guest, Eli Malinsky, Executive Director, Centre for Social Innovation, New York City.

From the Ground Up:  Supporting New Ideas for a New Economy

The social impact sector is surging. New models of investment, new hybrid corporate structures, new vehicles for collaboration and a surge of new technologies are transforming the sector beneath our feet. We are on the verge of a new economy. 
 
The enthusiasm for this movement is at its clearest on the front-lines. Emerging organizations – especially those led by a new generation of social entrepreneurs – are working to build sustainable models that tackle a broad spectrum of social change challenges. But how do we strengthen the movement? How do we identify and support the most promising ventures? And how do we separate the wheat from chaff?
 
On March 13 we will delve into perhaps the most important startup trend of the 21stC with the Founder/Co-Founder of the Social Capital Markets Conference, GoodCapital and The Hub Bay Area, Kevin Doyle Jones.

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AGENDA

6:30 - Networking and Pizza
7:00 - Fireside Chat
8:00 - Questions and More Networking
 
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WHAT IS STARTUP GRIND? 

Startup Grind is a 30-city event series hosted in 13-countries that educates, inspires, and connects entrepreneurs. Rooted in the heart of Silicon Valley, Startup Grind brings the world's greatest founders and investors to tell their stories on stage and share it with our global startup community. There are brilliant entrepreneurs everywhere so start learning and networking with them at your local Startup Grind community. 
 
For more information visit StartupGrind.com or follow us on twitter @StartupGrind.

Strengthening Alternative Systems through Diffusion of Innovations | Webinar

Monday, March 18th
9am (PST); 12pm (EST)

 

Discussing: How do we successfully diffuse and  scale what is working for other contexts into our own?

This presentation will focus on social innovations in differing contexts, such as fair trade, community waste, social franchising, and co-operative banking, schools and social care. Participants will walk away with insight regarding the significance of particular types of intermediaries and federated structures as means of expanding (and defending) these systems.

Featured Presenter:

Robin Murray is an economist whose work has recently focused on co-operative development and social innovation.  He was author of ‘Co-operation in the Age of Google’ a report on strategy for Co-operatives UK (the umbrella body for co-operatives in Britain), a co-author of ‘The Open Book of Social Innovation’ and is currently working on a text on Co-operative Accumulation.  He is a Fellow of the Young Foundation, for whom he co-authored two books on social innovation, and is also a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics.
 
This webinar will continue the discussion from BALTA’s recent webinar with Pat Conaty, which focused on how innovations develop and spread within the social economy.
 
Robin prefers not to use the word ‘scale’ because of its association with mass production, and finds it more helpful to think in terms of generative diffusion and the gradual development and strengthening of alternative systems.  Pat discussed this process in the case of community land trusts, community finance, and local energy projects.
 
Robin will look at differing experiences in such fields as fair trade, community waste, social franchising, and co-operative banking, schools and social care. They suggest the significance of particular types of intermediaries and federated structures as means of expanding (and defending) these systems.
 
 

Champions for Change: Leading a Backbone Organization for Collective Impact

Collective Impact results when actors from different sectors commit to a common agenda for solving a complex social issue. Backbone Organizations play a complex, behind-the-scenes role in the success of these collective impact initiatives. The Backbone Organization's role spans six major activities, requires a diversity of skills and is essential to maintain alignment across the partners. The effectiveness with which a Backbone Organization fulfills its role often determines the success or failure of the Collective Impact Initiative as a whole.
Champions for Change: Leading a Backbone Organization for Collective Impact is a multi-day interactive workshop designed specifically for the leaders of Leadership Roundtables, Coordinating Committees or Backbone Organizations of mature collective impact initiatives. The Tamarack Institute and FSG have partnered to develop this dynamic learning experience to offer leaders of Backbone Organizations an advanced learning opportunity designed exclusively for collaborative leaders.

As a participant you will:

  • Strengthen your ability to guide your collective impact initiative toward results;
  • Learn from, and build connections with, other experienced leaders of backbone organizations across a range of social issues; and
  • Participate in creating new resources and tools for the field of community collaborative and collective impact practitioners, which will be disseminated after the workshop

Workshop sessions will include topics such as:

  • Deeply understanding the roles and impact strategies of the backbone organization;
  • Developing and learning from shared measurement;
  • Community Engagement to build the will of your community;
  • Making Collaborative governance effective;
  • Sustaining funding for collective impact over the long term;
  • Working in complexity and the importance of adaptive leadership; and
  • Getting to true impact and systems change
Learn how your team can benefit from this amazing learning opportunity. Special rates are available for teams of three or more who attend together.

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